OAKLAND — The Warriors have home-court advantage for the playoffs, the best record in the NBA and the presumed MVP in Stephen Curry.

The New Orleans Pelicans have Anthony Davis.

“I don’t know anyone who can guard him,” teammate Ryan Anderson said.

Davis, the Pelicans’ fast-rising, 22-year-old star forward, said his team is excited about its opportunity Saturday at Oracle Arena.

“We’re very confident,” said Davis on the eve of his first playoff game. “We made it this far, we’re not looking to go home just yet. We know this is a tough environment, even without the playoffs. We’re looking forward to it.”

The Pelicans’ confidence was steeled by a season in which they overcame a total of 95 missed games because of injuries to four core players. That left them needing to win eight of their final 11 games to secure the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference.

In the past two weeks, they beat the Warriors, then knocked off the defending champion San Antonio Spurs to clinch the bid.

Coach Monty Williams said the team’s optimism is tempered by a clear sense of reality.

“They’ve handled us here. It’s not even been close,” Williams said of the two matchups in Oakland. “From that standpoint, we know we have a lot to prove. But you can’t get to this point and not be confident.”

Davis, who had 31 points in the decisive win over San Antonio, is perhaps the Pelicans’ lone edge. While the Warriors won the season series 3-1, New Orleans was 1-1 in games Davis played. He averaged 29.5 points and 12.5 rebounds in those two games.

“He just is so versatile. If you try to eliminate one thing, he’s got 12 other things in his repertoire,” said Anderson, the former Cal star.

Williams doesn’t expect any flaws to be exposed in the playoffs. Asked how he expects Davis to respond to the big stage, Williams said, “Same way he’s responded in the (college) national championship, Olympics, World Cup, the other day.

“He’s one of the few people that he’s got a lot of hype with him but he backs it up. I don’t think he’s afraid. He’s ready for it.”

Anderson said he has stopped hearing Davis being measured against other great players.

“There’s nobody to compare him to. You try to compare him to maybe a young Kevin Garnett or Tim Duncan. Nobody’s really like him.

“I thought those guys were really cool to be around. I really love their work ethic,” Williams said. “Steph is really affable. He loves to talk and he competes. Klay is about as crotchety as an old man passing a stone. That’s just who he is and I like that.”

“We actually learned a lot from the Spurs before we played Golden State,” Williams said of the April 3 game. “Pop talked to me about a few things that we can do to help our chances against them. He actually did it in an interview, and I just happened to be listening, and we tried those things.

“Now, are we the Spurs? No. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do the things that are Spurs-like, and we’ve tried to implement some of those things in our attack. And we’re going to talk about them every day as we go through this series.”